e-ADM Celebrates 5th Anniversary

Site offers simplified transactions for ADM business partners

This month, Archer Daniels Midland Company’s secure online portal, e-ADM, will mark its 5th anniversary of providing valuable online services for customers and suppliers.

The site offers a variety of tools for food, feed and fuel customers that can assist with retrieving important business-to-business information, processing secure payments and tracking product inventory and shipments.

For grain customers, e-ADM presents 10-minute delayed futures, news, weather, proprietary market intelligence and access to contract, shipment and payment information.

“e-ADM allows ADM to continue to enhance relationships with our business partners by providing innovative services that make it more convenient and more profitable to conduct business,” said Ray Preiksaitis, Group Vice President, Information Technologies. “Business partners using e-ADM and other Company services will recognize our commitment to sharing our resources – our people, products and market perspective – to help them meet consumer demands now and in the future.”

ADM World, ADM’s global Internet location is also a reliable resource for customers, investors, producers and opinion leaders. The site offers customers the ability to search for ADM products by functionality or application and is available in seven languages.

About ADM

Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) is a world leader in agricultural processing and fermentation technology. ADM is one of the world's largest processors of soybeans, corn, wheat and cocoa. ADM is also a leader in the production of soy meal and oil, ethanol, corn sweeteners and flour. In addition, ADM produces value-added food and feed ingredients. Headquartered in Decatur, Illinois, ADM has over 25,000 employees, more than 250 processing plants and net sales for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2005 of $35.9 billion. Additional information can be found on ADM's Web site at www.adm.com.

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